Making My Mark : An Artist's Early Life

MacIntyre, James

ISBN 10: 0856407070 / ISBN 13: 9780856407079

Published by Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 2001

About this Item

Pages: (8), 146. Illustrations throughout , many in colour. 270x215mm. Original publisher's cloth, spine lettered gilt, with unclipped dust jacket. A fine copy of the first edition free from any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings.

Seller Inventory # 001586

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making My Mark : An Artist's Early Life
• Publisher: Blackstaff Press, Belfast
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856407070
• ISBN 13: 9780856407079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: James MacIntyre
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Irish Biography
  • Irish Art
  • 20th Century

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Synopsis

There wasn't much in the way of art education for Shankill Road youngsters when James MacIntyre was growing up in Belfast. Times were hard, and the emphasis for boys was on getting into a trade, not messing about with pencils and crayons. However James was born with a real talent, a talent that somehow, by sheer instinct and stubbornness, he developed into a profession. He had his first show when he was only 18 and soon was a respected member of the group of artists which included Gerard Dillon, Dan O'Neill and Arthur Armstrong. This is James MacIntyre's story of those early years - his own portrait of the artist as a boy and young man. Written simply and directly, it presents a picture of Belfast in the 1930s and 1940s, and an account of his struggle for artistic fulfilment against all the odds.